Re: A career dilemma

[davorg]

You don't say what part of the UK you're in. My experience is based in London, but I do have contacts in other parts of the country.

I do Perl, Unix and SQL. I used to write C, but no-one's asked me for that in over five years. There are huge numbers of companies using these technologies in London - from small internet startups to huge corporations. Most of the large banks in the City use Perl and Unix for their back-end processing.

It's probably true that there are more MS-based jobs out there, but there are more than enough Perl/Unix jobs to go round the people that want them.

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<http://www.dave.org.uk>

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[ChilliHead]

I'm based in Bristol.

I recently search a job site for vacancies in the South West and found 39 for Perl but 204 for Visual Basic.

CH

[davorg]

39 sounds plenty - how many jobs do you want :)

Part of the problem may be that Perl is far more community-based than other languages. Many of the best Perl jobs never make it to job sites. Get in touch with your local Perl Monger group. They'll probably know where the jobs are. There was a bristol.pm, but I don't know how active it is. There's certainly a bath.pm - they might be able to help.

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<http://www.dave.org.uk>

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me